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In This Issue
  • Mariner Career Development Classes
  • SCI's Spring Appeal
  • The Wall Street Journal article
  • March Podcast: The Lookout Extended Play
Open Enrollment Spaces Available for
Simulator Courses at CME-Paducah

Advanced Pilothouse Management Training
April 19-21
  • Course covers Situational Awareness, Risk Management, Rules of the Road, Crew Endurance Management and Leadership.
  • No wait time for the simulator
  • Low student to teacher ratios
  • Review of Case Studies from recent NTSB reports


Rose Point Electronic Chart Training
April 13, 15 and 29
  • One-day (8 hr) course, applying Rose Point ECS4 in a range of underway scenarios
  • Employs sophisticated navigation simulation with access to complete full-mission bridge simulator system, equipped with ECS
  • Designed to enhance navigation safety by providing knowledge and skills necessary to utilize Rose Point ECS fully and efficiently


Designated Examiner Training
April 22
  • This four-hour course provides classroom training and practical exercises for acceptance by the U.S. Coast Guard National Maritime Center as a Designated Trainer for Towing Officer Assessment Record (TOAR).
  • Use of Kongsberg simulators
  • Includes formal techniques in observation and assessment
  • Meets the training requirements listed in Title 46 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 10.405, and described in USCG Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular (NVIC) 03-16, paragraph 5.c.2
  • Class size 2-8

For all classes, please call 270.575.1005 for pricing and reservations.

Wonderful Things Happen When We Collaborate

SCI’s annual spring appeal will be arriving shortly in your mailbox.

As an essential but mostly invisible workforce, mariners and seafarers have demonstrated tremendous resilience and strength on the front lines of this pandemic. And in keeping with our long, rich history of commitment to serving them, SCI found creative solutions to champion these mariners and minister to their needs during unprecedented times.
 
Mariners and Seafarers know we are here for them, and we know you are here for SCI.
 
Contributing now to SCI’s annual spring appeal is a vote of confidence for the important work we do. No gift is too small. Every dollar counts!

Together we can make a significant difference in the lives of mariners and seafarers.
Watch Jim Lawrence, SCI Board member, Chairman of Marine Money and Founding Partner of the MTI Network, speak eloquently about the mission of SCI and the role SCI plays for the seafarer "at the loneliest and most difficult time of his life ... Seafarers have enormous jobs and terrific responsibilities, but are also terribly alone and even the best of them needs the help that SCI can provide."

The Wall Street Journal Visits SCI’s International Seafarers’ Center in Port Newark

"SCI helped shine a light on the incredible hardships and work of the seafarers during the pandemic, along with new SCI services available to them, in a front-page article in the national edition of The Wall Street Journal on March 10. WSJ Columnist Anne Kadet accompanied Chaplain James Kollin and Chaplain Cora DiDomenico on several ship visits. Ms.Kadet toured SCI's International Seafarers’ Center with Center Director, Tim Wong and President & Executive Director, the Rev. Mark Nestlenutt. She also met with Joanne Bartosik in Christmas at Sea headquarters housed in the center.

Here are some excerpts from the article:

"Because of Covid-19, most cargo ship workers can’t leave their vessels these days—often for months at a time. Seafarers docking in Port Newark count on Ms. DiDomenico and her two fellow chaplains with the Seafarers’ Center to fetch items they used to buy on their own shore-leave shopping expeditions...

Center chaplains still provide ministry and counseling, of course. The same morning Ms. DiDomenico visited the juice tanker, the Rev. James Kollin, another center chaplain, boarded a bulk ship that was carrying rock salt from Haiti. He delivered a Tagalog Bible requested by a crew member."

"Rev. Kollin says that when the mariners share their struggles, there’s not much he can do but listen, recognize them, pray with them and thank them for their service. ‘It’s good that you are there so you can help provide for the world,’ he tells them.

Thankfully, things are opening up again, and some mariners, depending on whether their ship grants them leave, are once again taking advantage of the free shuttle van service that the center provides between the port and the Mills at Jersey Gardens, a nearby outlet mall. Before the pandemic, the shuttle ran more frequently.

The service is popular not just for the chance to go shopping but the opportunity to see new faces and wear civilian clothes. 'You get to be human,' says Ms. DiDomenico."
March Edition of SCI's Podcast
The Lookout Extended Play

SCI Director of Maritime Education & Training
Captain Stephen Polk, MNI
&
President of Riben Marine
Captain Jay Riveria, SME

SCI's feasibility studies, conducted on simulators at our Center for Maritime Education campuses in Paducah and Houston, give voice to the mariner in the design phase of new construction in their work environments on the water. Mariners experience real life scenarios and give feedback on the safety of vessels, bridges, terminals and more, long before they are built. The multi-bridge (four in Paducah and five in Houston) scenarios foster comprehensive interactions between Tug Captains, Ship Crews, and Pilots, in highly complex and dynamic simulations.

In this month's podcast Stephen and Jay discuss the feasibility studies' value in "getting it right from the beginning" and present interesting case studies of past projects.


Your Support Allows Us to Respond to Mariner Needs Without Hesitation.


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